After we managed to divest ourselves of our daughter’s two lovely black cats, which went on to a new, permanent brilliant home as she embarked on a year plus surgical fellowship in Sydney, a question arose about vaccinations. We realised…
Category: Health
The flu jab . . . an autumnal routine
As the autumn rolls in, it’s time once again for the annual flu jab, if you’re part of the population for whom such a preventative strategy is deemed cost-effective by the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). That…
Hexham, our market town
A village, even one as vibrant as Allendale and its surrounding communities throughout the East and West Allen Valleys, needs a market town relatively close by. We’ve already considered, in the diary, some of the cultural aspects provided in Hexham,…
Weird stuff: trashing things
And car petrol caps opened all along Allenfields, Lonkley and Leadgate. What’s going on? It all sounds like a case (or two) of mental health, to me, rather than anything more insidious, though that’s challenging enough. By now the begonias…
Susie Tate, dancer
In an earlier item, I promised to feature Susie Tate’s work in the diary, and I’ve spent a delightful half-hour chatting with her on the phone for this piece today. Recall that Susie was featured on Look North for her…
Pilates with Pat
Pat Waters has been running a Pilates session at Allendale Village Hall for the past eight years, and she sends along some notes about the Tuesday morning courses (11-12): “My Pilates class has been going relentlessly for the last 8…
The middle lane, and edging slower
I’m juggling two parallel concepts today (I imagine an extended hospital stay exerts kind of a philosophical tug on the old heartstrings — at least it did on mine). I remember so well, some 35 years ago, when suddenly we…
Into the ITU . . .
This is the second holding page of the editor’s surgical hiatus — sounds like a medical condition! — AllendaleDiary.org will be bringing you more news about entities around and about the village soon! — but just to bring some further…
A surgical hiatus . . .
With apologies, this really isn’t a post, as such, but just a pretend-post to hold the date for the diary, so that another interesting snippet of thoughtful commentary and analysis might be edited in later. Larry is having surgery on…
Dog Poo-Bag Dispensers!
You know, I wondered what they were! And so timely too, since it seems like everyone is complaining about the mess on the pavements these days, and not just the pavements, on the green, in the park, on the paths…